The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 197 or -197?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -197?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-197| = ?
The absolute value of -197 is the distance between -197 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -197:
Since the distance between -197 and 0 on a number line is 197, we get the answer as follows:
|-197| = 197
Note that the absolute value of -197 can also be written as abs(-197) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -196
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